Various
Havertown, PA
2015, Senior, Poetry & Spoken Word
Plastic Pollution
Plastic Pollution
Permeates through the Pacific
Like packs of piranhas
Perusing their prey,
Placards that say:
“Poisoned and in pain”
Gyres
Garbage patches.
Trash vortex.
Plastic soup.
The wind shakes,
And the Earth rotates.
Microplastics
The industrial
Processes, create
Microplastic trash.
Peanut
Like an orchid growing on a tree.
Except this orchid, is strong.
It bends the tree and deforms it.
The flowers, and the fruit, and the branches…
Fail to grow.
Plastic Smog
Five trillion pieces
Two hundred fifty thousand
Tons in the ocean
Sea Turtle Thoughts
“Jellyfish?”
No.
Plastic bag.
The Great Wave of Trash
The Great “Trash” Wave
Is what they should call it.
It no longer threatens boats,
But life in the same place
It thrives off of.
The mountain is covered in plastic,
Not snow.
The white foam and blue wave is now darkened
In unholy shades of garbage.
Thirty six views of Mount Plastic.
Plastic Diamonds
What is that shining?
Is it plastic or diamonds?
Either way, they stay.
Plastic Riddle
Just because you cannot see it,
Does not mean it isn’t there.
It’s hiding.
Far out of reach,
Far out of sight.
Funny thing is, it’s right on top.
A new home for organisms,
Because it took their old one.
It’s poisoning them,
In turn it’s poisoning you.
Plastic
Ocean waste
Impervious to water
Destroying homes of organisms
Synthetic
Pollution
Dirty, harmful
Smothering, choking, killing
Plastic, disease, cleanliness, purification
Prosperity, Life
Cleaning
If Dr. Seuss Wrote Books on Plastic in the Ocean
Plastic here
Plastic there
My oh my
Why it’s everywhere!
It’s in the turtles
And it’s in the fishes
Oh my goodness
Those go on our dishes!
What’s Inside That Counts
Take a look
Inside the stomach
Of a seventy year old
Sea turtle
You will not see food.
Dare I say, I’ve never seen,
A body of water that was clean,
Cause in the end everything goes,
Into the ocean, except your toes.
Pollution
Plastic-stasher
Habitat-destroyer
Life-sucker
Fish-killer
Seal-choker
Jellyfish- impersonator
Surface-sleeper
Trash-monger
Home- robber
Reflection
Reflection
Writing poems is something I love to do so I figured I’d create a collection of poems about the theme of “Our Oceans, Our Plastic.” Each poem has something to do with plastic pollution. What, how, and who plastic pollution affects are what I focus on. Peanut for example, was a turtle found deformed by a 6-pack ring. The first time I saw the picture of Peanut I was incredibly disturbed by the effects of plastic pollution on marine animals. I didn’t even think something like that was possible. Throughout the collection of poems I explored different forms of poetry. This collection of poems contains cinquains, haikus, riddles, kennings, diamante, epigram, and free verse.